A total of 22 Ryanair flights to or from Spain have been canceled due to the strike that the pilots of this company have called at the Belgian Charleroi airport (about 50 kilometers from Brussels) on August 14 and 15. as reported on Thursday by the aerodrome itself.
Barcelona-El Prat, Palma de Mallorca, Alicante, Malaga, Girona-Costa Brava, Castellón, Santander and Asturias are the Spanish airports with flights arriving or departing from Charleroi that have been affected by the cancellations of the Ryanair strike, the third of these features organized in the last month.
Overall, the stoppage on August 14 and 15 has canceled 88 flights that had been scheduled between Charleroi and other cities in the rest of Europe and Morocco, in a strike that, yes, will not affect the other Belgian airport, Zaventem, which is the largest in the country and the closest to Brussels.
For Monday, August 14, there are a total of 10 suspended flights that connect with Spain: five that make a route departing from Charleroi and arriving in Barcelona, ??Palma, Girona, Castellón, Santander and Asturias; and another five that make the reverse journey, originating from one of these airports and destined for Charleroi.
For the holiday Tuesday of August 15, there are a total of 12 canceled flights: six that make a route departing from Charleroi and arriving in Barcelona, ??Palma, Girona, Alicante, Malaga and Asturias; and another six more that make the opposite route, originating in each of these airports and destination Charleroi.
Other cities of origin or destination affected by the pilots’ strike are Lisbon, Rome, Venice, Marseille, Perpignan, Warsaw, Helsinki, Tetouan or Rabat.
According to the unions calling for the stoppage, the new protest on August 14 and 15 is a consequence of “the intransigence of the Ryanair management.”
The Charleroi pilots denounce their working conditions, in particular they complain about rest times, and ask the Irish airline to recover the salary level prior to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
The two previous strikes took place on the weekends of July 15 and 16, which forced the cancellation of 120 flights, and July 29 and 30, which suspended up to 96 journeys.
This will be the first action that the pilots will carry out during the week, but it will coincide with the Asunción long weekend that takes place in mid-August, when many travelers leave or return from vacation.
Despite the numerous meetings held to date between unions and the management of the Irish airline, a solution has not yet been found. According to the unions, Ryanair continues to change the schedules and breaks of the pilots, contrary to a current collective labor agreement.
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